You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it.

Now my ability to notice things and respond to things and be here is far more profound. With that comes happiness, with it comes sadness, but it's a beautiful life.

They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay. I personally don't believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff. Tom does. That's what he wants to do, that's what he's going to do. You do not tell Tom what to do. He is a force to be reckoned with.

[As a producer] [Big Little Lies] is the stories of women that I know, and it was a way in which we could go to other women and say, "Here's a great role. There's five great roles here. They're all complicated. They all deserve to be told, and are you interested?" And that is rare.

In my heart I'm independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.

I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself.

I try never to be governed by fear; that's how I choose things.